The web is open 24 hours a day, and if you want to access the New York experience 24 hours a day at will, you're in luck: as with so much else, the City hosts some of the premier bloggers. NYC24 offers a sampling of what some of our bloggers were doing and saying on April 18, 2004:

Many bloggers remarked on the beautiful flowering of spring. Pyoruba went to a lecture on the Harlem Rennaisance. Columbia J-School's own Steven Chen went to Brighton Beach. James Christian, the Native Alaskan destitute in Manhattan, went out for Karaoke and did some job hunting. Ms. Frizzle was gripped by Spring Fever and odd weather phenomena. Gigglechick did some spring cleaning. Chris and Mulzer wandered around in the warmth and took some photos of the Lincoln Center.

Blue Jake took some pictures of carriage houses in the evening light at Brooklyn Heights. Andrea Harner found an impossibly cute picture of a kitty. Bronx Banter made it a point not to check the Yankees score until 15:30 because it was his mother's birthday, and he didn't want to be disappointed in case they lost to the Red Sox. Which they did.

Gothamist, one of New York's most famous bloggers, was actually in London, but she still managed to talk about the British TV show, Prime Suspect. Felix Salmon was in Japan, but on April 18th New York time he took 15 seconds to complain about gruesome images of him from a New York Bloggers event. Veteran blogger Jeff Jarvis has staked his place in the realm of meta-blogging, having spent that bright Sunday blogging mainly about Wonkette and other blogs. Amy Langfield was still pondering blogging for dollars after Bloggercon.

Gawker took the weekend off.

by Saheli S. R. Datta